Live Well Gluten Free

So, what gluten free products in this category do you want the most? The top three answers were savoury snacks ( 72% ), ready made sauces ( 67% ) and retailer own brand breakfast cereals ( 66% ). HEALTH Earlier this year we asked you all about your gluten free diet: what products you like to eat, the ingredients you avoid, and improvements you’d like to see. The results are in – find out how your response can shape our work in the future. Barley malt extract and vinegar In 2020 we introduced a new policy on products including ingredients made from gluten containing grains, like barley malt extract and barley malt vinegar. These products can only be included in your gluten free diet if the level of gluten is no more than 20 parts per million (ppm). You won’t see products like this in our Food and Drink Information anymore unless the manufacturer has: • committed to labelling their product gluten free • or removed barley malt extract or barley malt vinegar from their products. Gluten free beer Research around the analysis of gluten in fermented and hydrolysed products like beer is still evolving. So, whilst these products do meet the current standards for gluten free labelling, we’ve updated our position on them, visit www.coeliac.org.uk/glutenanalysis for more information. Gluten free beers can be made from pseudocereals (seeds used like cereals , such as quinoa, buckwheat) or grains that don’t contain gluten like rice. They can also be made from a gluten containing grain like barley, where the gluten is removed during processing. You can tell the difference between these two types of gluten free beer by reading the label. If the beer is made from a gluten containing grain, such as barley, the label must state 'contains barley'. Your gluten free diet 36% of you currently drink gluten free beer. 16 | www.coeliac.org.uk